A review by lizdesole
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

3.0

Some of these stories were enjoyable but it had gotten so much hype that I was expecting more. It gave a good sense of how bleak Russia was behind the red curtain but I found the stories for the most part to be too straight-forward and dry for the genre. After all these are essentially fairy tales and I think many of them needed more embellishment. Some of the stories brought to mind Anais Nin for me -too dry to be truly compelling . Not a goose bump in the lot for me